JARED Borgetti marked his home league debut with his first goal in the top flight for Bolton. JARED Borgetti marked his home league debut with his first goal in the top flight for Bolton.

JARED Borgetti marked his home league debut with his first goal in the top flight for Bolton.

With the World Cup looming fast on the horizon the man from Mexico will be hoping to kick on from here.

Borgetti has struggled to get a foothold in England after arrving in the summer and had to settle for sporadic outings in Cup competitions.

He has managed five goals as well - no mean feat - but the Barclays Premiership is where he wants to be.

Borgetti looked the part against a City side that failed to build any momentum from the marvellous derby victory against Manchester United.

Both goals came in the space of three first-half minutes with captain Kevin Nolan also on target.

Bolton took the game to City right from the off and Nolan showed good awareness in the fifth minute to release Stelios Giannakopoulos but he had strayed marginally offside.

Danger

Then Kevin Davies whipped in a cross from the right that City captain Sylvain Distin did well to clear to safety.

Bolton were beginning to spray the ball about and Khalilou Fadiga cleverly picked out Giannakopoulos in the 10th minute but David James was alert to the danger and made the save.

There was a moment of danger for the visitors when James got his bearings wrong. He clattered into Borgetti but Bolton were unable to take advantage.

City were struggling to get their game together in the opening stages of the match.

Bolton manager Allardyce was forced to make a change in the 22nd minute. Ricardo Vaz Te replaced Fadiga, who was not running freely.

The substitution did not hurt Bolton, and they made the breakthrough in the 37th minute after a flowing move started by the industrious Davies.

He sent the ball into the area and Nolan cleverly back-heeled it into the path of Borgetti, who made no mistake.

Borgetti then set up Vaz Te three minutes later and he whipped in a powerful shot from the edge of the area that James did well to parry.

There was no respite for City, however, with Bolton adding a second a minute later.

Slack

Nolan took advantage of some slack marking in the 40th minute when Giannakopoulos played in a free-kick with a cool finish for his eighth goal of the season.

City defenders Distin and Dunne were being pulled all over the place by Borgetti and Davies, and Vaz Te gave Bolton another attacking option in their bid to kill the game off.

Cole and Vassell were being deprived of service at this stage with Bolton bossing the midfield area, but as the half wore on the Blues stepped up the pace, with Trevor Sinclair heading one chance over.

Robbie Fowler and Antoine Sibierski were then introduced into the action for Cole and Albert Riera.

Former Blackburn striker Matt Jansen replaced Borgetti in the 76th minute and the Mexico striker went off to a standing ovation.

Bolton were eager for a third and Nolan fired in a powerful shot in the 85th minute that went narrowly wide of James's right hand post.

However, this was a comfortable victory and maintained their remarkable home league record at the Reebok Stadium where they have lost just once and conceded four goals.